Guitar Stories: Bob Palmieri
Guitar Stories - Bob Palmieri "How (and why) I trashed my rare vintage Rosewood Telecaster" In 1969 my parents bought me my first “good” guitar. Previously, I had acoustic & electric axes bought from department stores, neither of which had names on their headstock. ‘Course, at that age and time period, as my drummer friend Fred said, “There were only two kinds of guitars - a guitar and an ELECTRIC GUITAR!”. Anyhow, my mom said “the kid seems to be serious, so let’s go to a music store and [...]
Guitar Stories: Bruce Forman
Guitar Stories - Bruce Forman Barney Kessel meant a lot to me. Besides being inspired by his recordings, I had the opportunity to hear him live and even shared the bandstand with him when I was in my early twenties. Then I got to tour with him! We played many times over the years and a long friendship developed. Through it all, he played this 'pound puppy' of a guitar, a cracked and scarred 40s Gibson ES-350, with a Charlie Christian pickup from the 30s (there's a YouTube video [...]
7 Questions w/ Rory Hoffman
Rory may be the only Henriksen player who nearly (and unwittingly) recycled his working Henriksen amp, but he's also the guy to go to in Nashville for about 20 different western and world instrument session tracks, and is also adept at events from multi-generational Polka jams to beloved pet funerals. Aside from all that, he has a singular style and incredible capabilities as a player. Get to know more about him. How have you spent your downtime this past year, and what's on the horizon that's exciting for you? Well, [...]
7 Questions w/ Linda Manzer
Linda Manzer, a Jedi Master of the guitar luthiery world, has continued to find inspiration and avenues through which to challenge herself over a celebrated career that spans nearly half a century. She's a movie score loving romantic, in it for the art, and for the player. Interested in a build? Her favorite specs are your preferred specs; her approach is entirely informed by the player in question. Let's learn a little more: Your incredible skill and success in luthiery has led to a 45+ year career - impressive by [...]
7 Questions w/ Adam Miller
So an Aussie with a guitar walks into a bar off the street in New York and says, "I'm here to play with Les Paul, let me in!"... And they do, and he does! Might sound like the start of some kind of jazz-crowd joke, and it may not have quite happened that way, but it's not far off, either! Read more about this mountain biking, bass-loving, club-crashing guitarist and composer below. Every musician needs a hobby away from music - tell us about mountain biking! Ha, yes! I was [...]
7 Questions w/ Raul Reynoso
The recent release of Raul’s self-produced CD, “Royal Street,” which features the Rhythm Brothers and special guest violinist Johnny Frigo, has brought Raul international acclaim from Jazz reviewers in the U.S., UK and Europe. The instrumental and compositional skills displayed on this, Raul’s first solo CD, have solidified his position as one of the world’s finest guitarists. We caught up with him recently for our 7 Questions With series, and it went a little something like this: With the current state of live performance being what it is, what is [...]
7 Questions w/ Jocelyn Gould
Like so many musicians with cancelled show, festival, and tour plans this year, Jocelyn has had to reorient herself in a dynamically shifting landscape for performers. Read about her "recalibration" tactics, thoughts on ultra-simple vocal/instrumental rigs, and learn about what she's got in store for you this year and in 2021! With the current state of live music performances being what it is, what is your musical (or otherwise) focus right now? Lately I have been focusing on developing the technology that I need in order to put out quality [...]
7 Questions w/ Michael Bashkin
A local Fort Collins, CO-based luthier, Michael Bashkin jokes about how he and Peter Henriksen came to know each other, only while both were away at the same distant guitar shows: "just two Colorado people getting together outside of Colorado, and only outside of Colorado." Michael's an incredibly talented luthier, scientist, artist - and hey, bass player, too! Read on to learn more about his process. The acoustic instruments you make feature incredibly beautiful and ornate inlay, engrafts, and all manner of tasteful yet exceptional decoration, on top of the [...]
7 Questions w/Tim Lerch
Currently one of the Pacific Northwest's busiest and most well respected guitarists, Tim Lerch is a member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz Group, Pearl Django, as well as the Tim Lerch Jamie Findlay Duo. In between gigs with PD and Jamie, Tim tries to play as many solo guitar performance as he can fit into the schedule. He was gracious enough to submit himself to our infamous 7 Questions - read on to learn more about him! The tagline on your website is Taste, Tone and Telecasters. You have [...]
Guitar Stories: Bill Piburn
Guitar Stories - Bill Piburn This guitar is an electric, nylon string Gibson Chet Atkins model, and I call it my computer guitar because it’s easy to play, and it has a good sound quality without plugging it in. It’s not a guitar I’d want to record with as far as doing a record; I’d use a nylon string with a larger body and greater sound quality for that. But it’s a real playable guitar, everybody loves it. It’s got a sound chamber, so it’s not a solid body; [...]
Guitar Stories: Jim Nichols
My favorite guitar was made for me by a legendary guitar builder named Bill Hollenbeck, who’s unfortunately not with us anymore. Here’s the story of how we met, and my favorite instrument. It’s gotten much harder to travel with a guitar nowadays; if you’re lucky and there’s room in the overhead, maybe you can carry one on the plane. Years ago, in the early 2000s and late ‘90s, I went to the Chet Atkins festival and carried on a Taylor acoustic and a Telecaster, both in the same big deluxe [...]
7 Questions w/John Knowles
John is a Nashville-based, 100% Chet Atkins-bestowed Certified Guitar Player (or was it Country Guitar Picker?), a passionate teacher, and a lifelong student of music and his craft - as well as a recipient of an advanced degree in Physics from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. After plying that degree working for Texas Instruments for a short time, he and his wife had a son, so John naturally figured he'd better knock off the pie in the sky physics stuff and enter the real, working world, with a guitar [...]